All UK policy articles – Page 5
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Rail Business UKManchester buzzing to put rail into its Bee Network
Greater Manchester Transport Commissioner Vernon Everitt tells Rail Business UK how rail services could be better integrated with other public transport in the conurbation under the recently agreed Trailblazer devolution deal.
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Rail Business UKDerby selected as Great British Railways headquarters
UK: Derby has been selected to host the national headquarters of Great British Railways, with the Department for Transport saying it had come top in both the assessment process and the public vote. There were 42 expressions of interest in being the home of GBR, and ...
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Rail Business UKRMT members accept Network Rail offer to end strikes
UK: The RMT union’s National Executive has announced the end of the trade dispute with Network Rail, after members voted to accept the latest offer covering pay, jobs and conditions. The result announced on March 20 was a 76:24 vote in favour of accepting the offer, ...
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Rail Business UKRail sector disappointed at lack of clarity in Spring Budget
UK: Deeper devolution deals for Greater Manchester and the West Midlands and confirmation that the route for the Bedford – Cambridge section of East West Rail will be announced during May were included in the Spring Budget presented by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt on March 15, but ...
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Rail Business UKUK faces being ‘left behind’ in the hydrogen train sector
UK: A government commitment to procuring hydrogen trains and refuelling infrastructure is required to kick-start deployment and achieve faster decarbonisation of the rail network, according to Hydrogen UK.
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Rail Business UKRIA calls on government to accelerate plans to decarbonise rail
UK: The Railway Industry Association has launched a RailDecarb23 campaign urging the government to take three steps to accelerate plans to decarbonise rail and reach Net Zero by 2050. These are to: immediately implement a rolling programme of cost-effective electrification on intensively-used lines; ramp-up orders ...
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Rail Business UKGovernment must electrify at a faster rate, says Transport Committee
UK: To achieve its decarbonisation goals the government must electrify the rail network at a faster rate, according to the Fuelling the future: motive power and connectivity report published by the House of Commons Transport Committee. The report published on March 2 looks across transport modes. ...
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Rail Business UKIndustry responds as High Speed 2 delays confirmed by government
UK: Delays to High Speed 2 along with other transport schemes have been confirmed by Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper, who said ‘we have seen headwinds from inflation, triggered by the impact of Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine, as well as supply chain disruption ...
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Rail Business UKAbellio UK becomes Transport UK Group as buy-out concludes
UK: Dutch national train operator NS announced on March 1 that its international operating arm Abellio had formally completed the divestiture of its UK subsidiary through a management buy-out.
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Rail Business UKRail Partners sets out Freight Expectations for growth
UK: Rail Partners has called on the government to implement five policies that would enable rail to play a greater role in decarbonisation of the logistics sector and would give freight operators and customers the confidence to invest in assets. On March ...
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Rail Business UKRail needs to get out of a pickle, says Minister in Gherkin
UK: ‘The perception that passengers cannot rely on rail is too close to the truth’, Rail Minister Huw Merriman told representatives of the passenger industry.
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Rail Business UKTicket reform on the way
UK: The government is planning to announce details of plans for national rail ticket reform by May, Rail Business UK understands.
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Rail Business UKI Came By Train aims to get more people to go by train
UK: Recommendations for ‘nudging’ travellers towards trains as a lower carbon option than cars or flying are set out in a report produced by Trainline and GlobeScan as part of the ticker retailer’s I Came By Train campaign to highlight the environmental benefits of rail. ...
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Rail Business UKArriva calls for open access summit
UK: Arriva has called for an ‘open access summit’ to enable the rail industry to ’collectively work through the barriers and agree practical steps for unleashing more of these innovative services, including through making best use of unused capacity on the network’. In the George Bradshaw ...
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Rail Business UKRail impact of minimum service legislation to be investigated
UK: The House of Commons Transport Committee has launched an inquiry into how the government’s proposed Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill would apply in practice to the rail sector. If passed, the bill would allow the Secretary of State to make regulations setting out the minimum ...
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Rail Business UKRail reform will enhance the role of the private sector, says Harper
UK: Private sector train operators will have a key role to play in the reformed rail structure, Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper told industry leaders on February 7. Presenting the annual George Bradshaw Address hosted by industry association Rail Partners, Harper sought to set ...
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Rail Business UKTransport Committee to investigate accessibility obligations, enforcement and redress
UK: The House of Commons Transport Committee has launched an inquiry into transport accessibility for disabled people and those with access needs. This will examine the effectiveness and enforcement of legislation, and any gaps in it that need to be filled. The committee will also look at ...
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Rail Business UKGovernment ‘committed to delivering HS2 to Manchester’
UK: The government is committed to building High Speed 2 through to London Euston rather than terminating it short at Old Oak Common, according to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt. ‘I don’t see any conceivable circumstance in which that would not end up at Euston’, he told the ...
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Rail Business UKRail projects allocated ‘levelling up’ funding
UK: Cardiff Crossrail and the Mid-Cornwall Metro are amongst 29 transport projects allocated a total of £672m as part of £2·1bn of government funding for ‘levelling up’ schemes.
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NewsRail sector responds to bill to require minimum service levels during strikes
UK: The rail sector has responded to the government’s introduction to Parliament on January 10 of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, which would require the provision of minimum levels of public services in various sectors during industrial disputes. A bill covering the transport sector had ...